Editing RedEye

{{Short description|Daily newspaper in Chicago}}
{{other uses|Red eye (disambiguation)}}
{{more citations needed|date=February 2020}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = RedEye
| image = [[Image:RedEye front page.jpg|225px|border]]
| caption = The December 6, 2010 front page<br/>of ''RedEye''
| type = Weekly [[newspaper]]
| format = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]]
| foundation = {{Start date|2002|10}}<ref name="ST01">{{cite web |last=Mullman |first=Jeremy |date=October 4, 2005 |title=Sun-Times may end Red Streak tabloid |url=https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20051004/NEWS01/200018000/sun-times-may-end-red-streak-tabloid |access-date=August 11, 2010 |work=[[Crain's Chicago Business]]}}</ref>
| owners = [[Tribune Publishing]]
| editor = Lauren Chval
| circulation = 250,000<ref name="circulation-trib">
{{cite news
 |title=Chicago Tribune's RedEye to increase distribution
 |first=Phil |last=Rosenthal
 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune
 |date=December 2, 2009
 |url=http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2009/12/chicago-tribunes-redeye-to-increase-distribution.html
 |access-date=August 12, 2010
}}</ref><ref name="circulation-redeye">
{{cite news
 |title=You asked, we deliver -- Coming soon: More RedEye, more places
 |first=Scott |last=Kleinberg
 |newspaper=RedEye
 |date=December 2, 2009
 |url=http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/redeye/2009/12/you-asked-we-deliver----coming-soon-more-redeye-more-places.html
 |access-date=August 12, 2010}}</ref>
| ceased publication = {{end date|2020|03|19}}
| headquarters = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]],<br/>United States
| ISSN = 
| website = {{URL|www.redeyechicago.com}}
}}
'''''RedEye''''' was a publication put out by the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' geared toward 18 to 34-year-olds. It was published every weekday since its inception in 2002 until February 3, 2017.  Publication was reduced to weekly starting February 9, 2017.  Daily circulation was 250,000 as of December 2, 2009.<ref name="circulation-trib" /><ref name="circulation-redeye" /><ref name=Tribune2017Jan10>
{{cite web
 |quote=The last daily print issue of RedEye will be Feb. 3, with the first weekly issue published on Feb. 9.
 |author=Channick, Robert
 |title=RedEye reboots as weekly entertainment publication
 |date=January 10, 2017
 |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-redeye-restructure-0111-biz-20170110-story.html
 |publisher=Chicago Tribune
 |access-date=June 1, 2017
}}</ref> The final issue was published March 19, 2020, a coronavirus edition.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chicago Red Eye |url=https://digitaledition.chicagoredeye.com/html5/desktop/production/default.aspx?pubid=398df001-6622-4755-89e8-a88d13f18bf5 |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=digitaledition.chicagoredeye.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Competition==
''RedEye'' was created because of the ''Chicago Tribune'' and other major newspapers' loss of readership among young people. [[Tribune Company]] began publishing the ''RedEye'' in an effort to pull readers back into readership and eventually migrate them into the big edition (''Tribune'').<ref name="ST01"/>

When ''RedEye'' appeared, it was in direct competition with another paper ''[[Red Streak]]'', which the ''Tribune's'' Chicago competitor the ''[[Sun-Times]]'' began publishing at the same time. Initially, both papers were handed out for free by "[[Hawker (trade)|hawkers]]" on street corners, usually with one vendor from each paper directly next to each other.<ref name="ST01"/> After about six months of the free papers, both companies placed vending boxes throughout the city with the papers thereafter costing 25 cents.  At the end of 2005, the ''Sun-Times'' discontinued ''Red Streak''. According to ''Sun-Times'' publisher John Cruickshank, ''Red Streak'' was only launched "to stop [the ''Tribune''] from gaining a foothold in the paid tabloid market". Its only purpose was to undermine ''RedEye'''s attempt at drawing commuters, customers which have historically belonged to the ''Sun-Times''.<ref name="ST01"/> At the beginning of 2006, ''RedEye'' became a free paper once again, with vending boxes being unlocked and coin slots covered over.

In February 2007, after [[NewsCorp]] launched a late-night talk television program on [[Fox News]] entitled ''[[Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld|Red Eye]]'', the Tribune Company filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thenewstribune.com/24hour/business/story/3556973p-12784930c.html |title=Tribune Sues Fox News Over 'Red Eye' |work=The News Tribune}}{{Dead link|date=August 2010}}</ref>

==Content==
[[Image:Redeye Sailboat.jpg|thumb|200px|A ''RedEye'' sailboat on [[Labor Day]] 2007 viewed from North Avenue Beach]]
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:EN-Chicago-Logo-Newspaper-R.jpg|left]] -->As compared with mainstream newspapers, ''RedEye'' strongly emphasized [[popular culture|pop culture]] and entertainment news, humorous or lighthearted rather than serious [[newspaper column|columns]], and flashy graphics and large pictures. Like the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', ''RedEye'' is a [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]]-format newspaper, oriented vertically rather than horizontally and with a front page consisting only of a large picture and a banner headline.

== Publication changes ==
After 15 years of daily distribution, ''RedEye'' shifted to a weekly format in 2017<ref>{{Cite news |last=Armentrout |first=Mitchell |date=January 10, 2017 |title=RedEye cutting down to weekly format |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/1/10/18386443/redeye-cutting-down-to-weekly-format |access-date=September 12, 2017 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |language=en}}</ref> before it stopped publishing in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

==Notes and references==
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==External links==

{{Commons category|RedEye}}
* {{official website|https://digitaledition.chicagoredeye.com}}

{{Tribune Publishing}}

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